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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

Author: Henri Médard; Shane Doyle
Publisher: Oxford : James Currey, 2007.
Series: Eastern African studies (London, England)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery and the line between enslaved and non-slave labour was fine. This book challenges  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa.
Oxford : James Currey, 2007
(OCoLC)608155565
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Henri Médard; Shane Doyle
ISBN: 9781847016027 1847016022 1847016030 9789970027279 9970027271 9780821417928 0821417924 0821417932 9781847016034 9780821417935
OCLC Number: 156891496
Description: xiv, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: Violence, marginality, scorn & honour : language evidence of slavery to the eighteenth century / David Schoenbrun --
Notes on the rise of slavery & social change in Unyamwezic, c.1860-1900 / Jan-Georg Deutsch --
Slavery & forced labour in the eastern Congo / David Northrup --
Legacies of slavery in north west Uganda : the story of the 'One-Elevens' / Mark Leopold --
Human booty in Buganda : some observations on the seizure of people in war, c.1700-1890 / Richard Reid --
Stolen people & autonomous chiefs in nineteenth-century Buganda : the social consequences of non-free followers / Holly Hanson --
Women's experiences of enslavement & slavery in late nineteenth & early twentieth-century Uganda / Michael W. Tuck --
Slavery & other forms of social oppression in Ankole : 1890-1940 / Edward I. Steinhart --
The slave trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the beginning of German colonisation : 1890-1906 / Jean-Pierre Chrétien --
Bunyoro & the demography of slavery debate : fertility, kinship & assimilation / Shane Doyle.
Series Title: Eastern African studies (London, England)
Responsibility: edited by Henri Médard & Shane Doyle.
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An exciting new addition to the literature on slavery and servitude in Africa as well as an important contribution to the historiography of the Great Lakes. LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN A pioneer Read more...

 
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